IVIV Group Read schedule (in progress): HAND-OFF

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks, Mark!  Thanks, Robin!  Thanks, everyone!  Okay, having spent
much of this past week @ the clinic, time for me to catch up here ...

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for great discussions, obs, always-interesting digressions,
> judgments, risked opinions and edification.
>
> I want to sum up two themes I wanted to make: 1) Doc through Chap 2 is quite a reliable narrator, it seems, so I think some judgments about his unreliability might need changed---or proven deeper or later.
> 1A) Doc's obs are very very close to the author's intent, it seems, when it comes to certain Pynchonian themes.
>
> 2) Picking up on the meme that TRP at the time this book is set, was writing that incredible masterpiece, so how encodedly autobigraphical is it?...I will repeat that one pretentious perspective that I will try to argue more, as we go on, is: Portrait of the Artist as a Detective of his Own Vision. See how many echoes of earlier books we are finding.
> See how many of Doc's values we get, that seem coterminus with TRPs.
>
> As what's his name says at the end of No Country for Old Men,
> I'M FINISHED for now but I plan to become resurrected in the fulness
> of time.
>
> Here's the baton...............